[Freeciv-Dev] Re: multiplayer mode is all that counts (was: [patch] Message windows (report, science ...))

[Daniel L Speyer <dspeyer@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Thu, 13 Sep 2001, Vasco Alexandre Da Silva Costa wrote:

> On Thu, 13 Sep 2001, Daniel L Speyer wrote:
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> > On Thu, 13 Sep 2001, Tony Stuckey wrote:
> > > On Thu, Sep 13, 2001 at 10:35:47AM +0200, Reinier Post wrote:
> > > > Most issues of speed and response time only really matter in multiplayer
> > > > mode with a timeout, when every tenth of a second counts.  Sometimes,
> > > > a game is literally decided within a split second.
> > > 
> > >   Which bothers me.
> > 
> > I suspect a lot of this could be removed by client-side scripting.  I
> > realize this is an immense task, but 95% of what a human can do in a split
> > second a computer can do too (as relates to freeciv, obviously I don't
> > mean image-recognition or other top AI problems that humans are hardwired
> > for).  Many players hack auto-goto as a primitive scripting language, but
> > it's very limited (for example, I recently brought knights into a city
> > under attack and wanted them to attack a legion immediately the next turn,
> > but the knights still had 1/3 of a movement point -- I lost the
> > knights).  Just an 'attack these units if they come next to you and you
> > have a >this% chance of winning' standing order could fix a lot of these
> > problems.
> 
> Scripting is fine for some tasks but 'ordinary' people don't enjoy it
> much. Besides we don't want to turn freeciv into Corewars do we? :-)
> 

I'm not familiar with Corewars, but maybe I should check it out :)

I wasn't proposing adding a Lisp or Python interperator (though if anyone
wants to try it...).  It just seems that in a real war you have officers
to whom you give stading orders.  I think the syntax (paradigm?) I
described would actually handle most scenarios.  That shouldn't intimidate
too many people.

--Daniel Speyer
"May the /src be with you, always"


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> Vasco Alexandre da Silva Costa @ Instituto Superior Tecnico, Lisboa
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